Issue 8, 2008
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Soft Matter

Controlling self-assembly within nanospace for peptidenanoparticle fabrication†

Weiping Wang,ab   Zhimou Yang,c   Siamrut Patanavanich,d   Bing Xubc  and  Ying Chau*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
E-mail: ying.chau@ust.hk
Fax: +852-23580054
Tel: +852-23588935

b Graduate Program of Nano Science and Technology, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

c Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

d Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Abstract

Here, for the first time, we present a new approach to produce peptide nanoparticles, which involves controlling the self-assembly process with an enzymatic trigger and confining it within nanoscale reverse micelles.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B801890A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
04 Feb 2008
Accepted
06 Jun 2008
First published
18 Jun 2008

Soft Matter, 2008,4, 1617-1620

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Controlling self-assembly within nanospace for peptide nanoparticle fabrication

W. Wang, Z. Yang, S. Patanavanich, B. Xu and Y. Chau, Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 1617 DOI: 10.1039/B801890A

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